That Which Is New

I realized I haven't blogged about my new Sony Ericsson k530i (yes! my first camera phone!) and so I'm here... blogging about it! (If you can't tell, I'm in a good mood. Why? The reason is simple. I finished that 2500 word essay in 3 nights without losing sleep! - The quality of the essay is a different matter altogether so... I'll not think about it >.<)

I took these pictures using my sony cybershot (sony biased person). I like this picture the best. Thanks to the bright fluorescent lights just in front of me, most of my pictures had too much reflection... especially with flash .___.;;; Anyway, this one turned out best! I actually like the contrast that the gold band offered.


Haha! All my new things are black. My laptop, mouse, mic, headphones, external HDD, pouch, bag... omigosh! I just realized everything I bought after July 2007 is black! (Excluding clothes.)


What you see on the surface of the phone is just dust! Honest! They're not eraser debris or whatever else you think it looks like. Just dust. (If you can't see it, thank you for not trying.)

I've been using a nokia 6610 since Alevels until this year. That's, at least 3 years I think. I haven't used anything other than nokia since I got my first phone in Form 3 (besides that motorola flip phone 'inherited' from my cousin). Hmm...

Anyway! I've got my Sony Ericsson k530i =D Bought from clareen at forum.lowyat.net. I was pretty desperate for a new phone because my nokia was dying (flickering screen, suddenly hangs so that you can't turn it on or off or use it at all, malfunctioning keypads... it was pretty serious...) and I wanted it cheap and fast! My first choice was this slide phone but I decided against it since it wasn't released in Malaysia and I don't have the budget for it. (Parents refused to pay .___.)

So, with a budget of less than 1,000rm and requirements including: mp3 player, voice recorder, minimum 2.0 mega pixels camera (regretted, should've gotten 3.2), GPS-enabled (I tend to get lost), and 3G; I looked up every sony ericsson website I could find and ended up with the k530. Hah. I'm actually quite proud of it after using it for about 2 weeks. No regrets after all!

It can take photos through a microscope!

My Future

Got this from munk's and sulyn's blogs. Lol... I had to try different combinations as entering different names results in different "futures".

Here are my results if you're interested in seeing the weird things that turn up.

Sorry sulyn, haven't answered the questions you tagged me with =P

March.30.2008:Sunday
+ found a list of web-based image editing application +

Procrastinating (yet again)

It took me three weeks to finish a 1500 word essay. Now, I'm left with 3 days to finish a 2500 word essay. Where's the logic in that?

I can't blame anyone for this though. After finally finishing that 1500 essay, I found myself procrastinating every single minute of the day. Look at me now! I'd rather blog than write that essay! I kept giving myself excuses saying I would do it once it's night since that's when I find the mood to work. (Which is truly a load of nonsense!)

Funny how it's so much easier putting things aside than doing them. When I feel stressed, I'd rather put the source of that stress at the back of my mind rather than fixing it so that I could free myself from stress. If only I could remember more often that dealing with it sooner will make myself feel free. And I won't feel so guilty anymore!

My bible reading has been falling back yet again. It felt so good too whenever I managed to catch up. I kept telling myself there's a time for everything and I should really do my best and keep up. Not just with reading the bible too. I've recently been reminded again how important it is to pray. Prayer is our only tool of communication with God. What is a relationship without conversation? There was one week where our cell group material shared about prayer and I found it extremely true. True to prayer and its role in our relationship with God.

If I feel like it I'll put it up in this blog. For the time-being, I'll be using the courage, strength and peace of God to stop procrastinating!

Pendrive Lost ;_____; (EDIT: And found)

March.19.2008:Wednesday
The librarian found it.

^____________^

March.18.2008:Tuesday
It's.. my turn ;____;

I lost my pendrive...

My green and white 1GB Kingston pendrive with a keychain that says "I love Jesus"

My pendrive with my newly written assignments ;_____;

Xerophagy

"The eating of dry food, especially food that's cooked without oil."

November.4.2007:Sunday
To think that even eating had different forms. Lol.

Feeling Sick (March.18.2008:Tuesday)
Is it even possible to like the feeling of being sick? When you eliminate pain and the need to treat yourself with medicine, you're left with that light feeling of muddled thought. It's that pleasurable feeling that makes you feel like lying down, closing your eyes, and letting your mind drift to the land of floating clouds. It's indescribable really. It's left me feeling pleasantly happy, without any lingering thought of unhappiness or depression. Just the feeling of being lightheaded, awake, dreamy, and... alive.

Silly, isn't it?

How do you show that you care?

Would it be excuse enough to say that I don't know how? 
Or would no excuse be allowed?
How do you grasp a concept that is so immaterial?
One can only try. 

It leaves me lost to not know. 
What can I do?
I don't want to give up. 
Keeping silent seems safe. 
But it wasn't what was needed. 
Yet, what, then, is needed?

Am I simply an idiot not to know?

Work?

Assignments, events, societies, clubs... what made me decide to take up all this at once? In the first semester of my third year too! I couldn't have chosen a worse time to be actively participating in extra curricular activities.

Maybe it was because I felt as though I've wasted my first and second years in university. Maybe it was the craving for being more involved in student life and not just the academic. Maybe I just didn't want to feel so left out anymore.

That still doesn't explain anything.

Assignments due:
+ genetics essay +
+ genetics laboratory report +
+ genetics paper analysis +
+ microbiology essay (completed without editing) +
+ molecular biology laboratory report (submitted) +
+ molecular biology essay +
+ sci2010 oral presentation +
+ sci2010 literature review +

Through Science

As a 22 year old, I realize I've grown up mostly in a Christian home (I spent the first three years of my life watching my parents worship their ancestors before they decided to accept Jesus into their lives). Therefore, a lot of teachings I've received are from the Bible. About how to live my life, about how to approach things, about how to deal with issues. So you could say I learn a lot on Sunday from Sunday School teachers and MIF talks. I'm pretty thankful for all this.

One of the things I'm most thankful of is my love for science. Today, I was listening to a lecture by Peter Doherty and he said something that reminded me why I loved science so much. "Everything in science can be questioned. Everything is open to reanalysis and reinterpretation." Just as it is with the Bible. Sure, everything God says is definite and everything God says is law. But anything and everything anyone says about God is questionable. Jesus taught us to question the teachings of teachers and to test everything. In science, we learn that what anyone says is not true until proven but a set of data. In the same way, the Bible taught us to test for the truth lest it be proven otherwise (1 John 4).

What we know as Science laws and theories are really what God has set since the beginning of time. We're merely discovering what God has made all this while. Even if we say we're playing 'god' by rearranging genes and making clones or transgenic animals, it is not wrong to say that we're merely rearranging what was already there. We're not even close to knowing how to construct our own genes! Our human brain cannot even begin to comprehend how God has made this entire world with a four letter code. Every day in genetics taught me and showed me more and more that God exists.

He really does!

Hunting

I have been looking around for an affordable phone. The theme of my search was to ensure I am upgrading to a better phone. Then again, any phone would be an upgrade considering the current state of my mobile.

I seriously want Sony Ericsson w760!

Unfortunately, my budget would only allow me to buy one phone. Darn. And I can't wait for it to be released too.

Assignments have been piling up. It is now only week 2. The mid-sem break is coming. Club activities are starting. Lectures are getting serious. The need to study is becoming imminent.

I might be getting a job.

New Layout

For some reason I couldn't open my list of drafts and therefore can't edit the post I had written previously.

Here I am now blogging about this new layout I got. I like it lots but it seems that everytime I put in my tag-board, the whole sidebar gets pushed below the main body. So not cool. I'm working on fixing the dimensions of the tag-board so that it fits in perfectly without seeming overly thin.

It's 9.35 AM and I'm waiting for 10.15 AM to arrive so that I can start my journey to the Pavillion (first visit ever!) with my girl friends. I'm not even in Monash U waiting. I'm in THOL, using the A-level's general account freely for my own selfish purpose; with only Matthew Reilly's book called "Temple" to accompany me. I'm at page 226 where the group of adventurers have found themselves out of the claws of the great cats, known by Incans as Rapa, into the Amazon river where 1-tonne 22-feet black caiman alligator/crocodiles await them. Fun.

Japanese?

Why is it always when I visit my blog without logging in, it's always Japanese?